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Epic to integrate Nuance AI virtual assistant into EHR

Nuance Communications and EHR giant Epic have partnered to integrate the voice and language tool vendor’s AI-powered virtual assistant into the EHR, the companies announced at HIMSS18.
Nuance launched its AI-powered virtual assistant for consum...

VA switch to Cerner EHR too big an opportunity not to get right, Secretary Shulkin says

LAS VEGAS -- In his keynote speech at HIMSS18 on Friday, U.S. Secretary of Veterans Affairs David Shulkin, MD, confessed: "I always believed I would be the last doctor in America to go an electronic health record. I loved my paper."
Today, ...

Health app adoption tripled since 2014, Accenture survey finds

LAS VEGAS -- New survey data out this week from Accenture shows that healthcare consumers are using more wearables and apps, and are more bullish on virtual care than ever before. But they also have high expectations for their health technology,...

How NASA's telemedicine doctors keep International Space Station astronauts healthy

LAS VEGAS -- There’s no doctor onboard the International Space Station. Because of the costs associated with shipping anything up to space, there’s a carefully chosen selection of medical supplies and devices. For everything else, the six...

Google, Oracle others make precision medicine moves at HIMSS18

Precision medicine is a hot topic at HIMSS18, and late in the week, multiple companies were making news in this field that many experts say is key to advancing the future of healthcare.
The majority of healthcare and life sciences organizations are a...

Microsoft, Apollo Hospitals to employ AI for early detection of cardiac diseases

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Microsoft is expanding MINE – the Microsoft Intelligent Network for Eyecare – to build an AI-focused network in cardiology in a new partnership with Apollo Hospitals.
The tech giant and Apollo, one of the...

Survey: Patients are comfortable engaging doctors digitally, but not with sharing data

Patients and physicians both are ready to engage with one another using digital tools, according to a new Ernst & Young national survey released at HIMSS18 this week.
The survey found 54 percent of consumers said they are comfortable contacting t...

LAS VEGAS – Members of the HIMSS Electronic Health Record Association met at HIMSS18 on Thursday, and offered a briefing on some of the big issues its vendor members are focusing on this year so far.
Speaking on behalf of EHRA, several experts ...

New AI platforms announced at HIMSS18 focus on fetal monitoring, enterprise imaging

PeriGen, a perinatal early warning systems vendor, unveiled at HIMSS18 PeriWatch Vigilance, a new fetal and maternal early warning platform.
PeriWatch Vigilance is an artificial intelligence-powered early warning platform for obstetrics that automati...